Table 2: Monthly balance of payments of the euro area
(EUR billions; transactions; non−working day and non−seasonally adjusted data)
| Cumulated figures for the 12-month period ending | December 2014 (revised) | January 2015 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2014 | January 2015 | ||||||||||||||
| Net | Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | Net | Credit | Debit | ||||
| Source: ECB. | |||||||||||||||
| 1) Financial account: increases in assets and liabilities (+) and decreases in assets and liabilities (-). | |||||||||||||||
| CURRENTACCOUNT | 199.6 | 3,258.1 | 3,058.5 | 240.2 | 3,322.4 | 3,082.1 | 35.2 | 294.7 | 259.6 | 8.2 | 254.0 | 245.9 | |||
| Goods | 218.5 | 1,923.9 | 1,705.4 | 247.7 | 1,950.4 | 1,702.7 | 25.9 | 161.4 | 135.5 | 10.5 | 146.6 | 136.1 | |||
| Services | 70.1 | 646.5 | 576.5 | 75.5 | 692.5 | 617.0 | 6.2 | 63.8 | 57.6 | 2.6 | 54.1 | 51.5 | |||
| Primary income | 51.3 | 598.9 | 547.6 | 60.2 | 588.0 | 527.8 | 16.6 | 60.4 | 43.8 | 9.9 | 45.7 | 35.8 | |||
| Secondary income | -140.2 | 88.8 | 228.9 | -143.1 | 91.5 | 234.7 | -13.6 | 9.1 | 22.7 | -14.9 | 7.6 | 22.5 | |||
| CAPITAL ACCOUNT | 23.3 | 40.7 | 17.4 | 20.9 | 35.4 | 14.5 | 2.6 | 5.2 | 2.6 | 0.4 | 2.0 | 1.6 | |||
| Net | Assets | Liabilities | Net | Assets | Liabilities | Net | Assets | Liabilities | Net | Assets | Liabilities | ||||
| FINANCIALACCOUNT1) | 401.8 | 843.9 | 442.2 | 324.5 | 785.6 | 461.1 | 7.0 | -146.3 | -153.3 | -22.2 | 250.0 | 272.2 | |||
| Direct investment | -5.0 | 510.3 | 515.3 | 51.6 | 27.0 | -24.6 | -16.7 | -37.2 | -20.5 | 5.0 | 12.1 | 7.2 | |||
| Equity | 14.2 | 451.3 | 437.1 | -9.6 | -8.2 | 1.5 | -15.3 | -17.7 | -2.4 | 8.0 | 18.1 | 10.1 | |||
| Debt instruments | -19.2 | 59.0 | 78.2 | 61.2 | 35.2 | -26.1 | -1.4 | -19.5 | -18.1 | -3.0 | -6.0 | -3.0 | |||
| Portfolio investment | -26.1 | 247.2 | 273.2 | 118.5 | 444.2 | 325.7 | 65.6 | 34.3 | -31.3 | -29.8 | 14.0 | 43.8 | |||
| Equity | -9.5 | 157.5 | 167.1 | -154.7 | 121.9 | 276.7 | 42.0 | 19.3 | -22.7 | -49.3 | -6.4 | 42.9 | |||
| Debt securities | -16.6 | 89.6 | 106.2 | 273.3 | 322.3 | 49.0 | 23.5 | 14.9 | -8.6 | 19.6 | 20.4 | 0.9 | |||
| Short-term | -22.3 | 6.7 | 29.0 | 54.3 | 50.4 | -3.9 | -8.6 | 12.9 | 21.6 | -13.8 | -18.8 | -5.1 | |||
| Long-term | 5.8 | 82.9 | 77.2 | 219.0 | 271.9 | 52.9 | 32.2 | 2.0 | -30.2 | 33.3 | 39.3 | 5.9 | |||
| Memo: Direct and portfolio investment | -31.1 | 757.5 | 788.6 | 170.1 | 471.2 | 301.1 | 48.8 | -3.0 | -51.8 | -24.8 | 26.2 | 51.0 | |||
| Financial derivatives | 33.5 | 49.4 | 1.6 | 5.5 | |||||||||||
| Other investment | 396.7 | 50.3 | -346.4 | 103.2 | 263.2 | 160.0 | -44.5 | -146.0 | -101.5 | -2.7 | 218.5 | 221.2 | |||
| Eurosystem | 52.2 | -22.9 | -75.0 | 10.5 | -5.6 | -16.1 | -3.4 | 4.4 | 7.8 | -49.6 | -6.5 | 43.1 | |||
| MFIs (excluding the Eurosystem) | 255.3 | 7.8 | -247.5 | 144.0 | 217.2 | 73.2 | -43.9 | -142.4 | -98.5 | 65.5 | 219.4 | 154.0 | |||
| General government | -1.6 | -4.7 | -3.1 | 14.8 | 7.5 | -7.3 | 13.0 | -0.9 | -13.9 | 1.8 | 3.5 | 1.7 | |||
| Other sectors | 90.8 | 70.0 | -20.8 | -66.1 | 44.1 | 110.3 | -10.2 | -7.2 | 3.1 | -20.5 | 2.0 | 22.5 | |||
| Of which: currency and deposits | 333.0 | -13.4 | -346.3 | 87.2 | 171.4 | 84.2 | -24.7 | -115.1 | -90.4 | -54.5 | 155.9 | 210.4 | |||
| Reserve assets | 2.7 | 1.7 | 1.1 | -0.1 | |||||||||||
| Errors and omissions | 178.9 | 63.3 | -30.7 | -30.8 | |||||||||||